Manufacture of leavened bread



Patented Aug. 19, 1924. v 1,505,236

UNETED STATES PATENT QFFICEQ LORIN H. BAILEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DEDICATED, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE CITIZENS O F THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MANUFACTURE OF LEAVENED BREAD.

No Drawing. Application filed May 7, 1924. Serial No. 711,543.

(FILED UNDER THE-ACT OF MARCH 3, 1883, 22 STAT. L, 625.)

To all whom it may concern: ture or grain, and elasticity are not mate- Be it known that I, LoRIN-H, BAILEY, a rially altered. The color, however, is dark citizen of the United States, and an embrown. The flavor is pronouncedly that of ployee of the United States Department of cocoa. Variations in the flavor may be made 6 Agriculture, residing in Washington, Disby the addition of raisins, peanuts, etc.

trict of Columbia, have invented certain new Since cocoa alone imparts a slightly bitand useful Improvements in the Manufaeter taste'to the bread, it is necessary to add ture of Leavened Bread of which the foladditional sweetening to overcome this bitlowing isa specification. terness. For this purpose, there may be 10' This application is made under the act used sugar (sucrose), maltose, honey, etc.

of March 3, 1883, Chapter 143 (22 Stat. The amount of additional sweetening to be 40 625) and the invention herein described and added may be determined by individual declaimed may be used by the Government of sires, but an amount equal to the weight of the United States or any of its officers or the cocoa used has been found satisfactory.

15 emplo ees in the prosecutionof work for In making leavened cocoa bread and rolls,

the overnment, or any person in the the cocoa is substituted for Wheat flour to United States, Without payment to me of the extent of eight or ten per cent of its any royalty thereon. Weight, additional sweetening of the kind The present invention relates to certain and amount desired is added. The ordinary 20 new and useful improvements in the manumethods and procedure used in making facture of leavened bread and rolls. plain bread and rolls or raisin bread and The invention is based upon the discovery rolls may be used in making the cocoa prodthat the use of cocoa, when. used as a fiavoructs.

ing material in the manufacture of leavened I claim:

25 bread, tends to produce a loaf that has im- In the manufacture of leavened bread the proved keeping qualities, i. e., it remains in step of incorporating cocoa in the dough a fresh state longer than ordinary bread batch to act as a flavoring agent and to im- When kept under the'same conditions. Other prove the keeping qualities of the bread. qualities of the loaf such as volume, tex- I LORIN H. BAILEY. 

